“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”

British author, literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian

C. S. Lewis was a British author, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian, active in the 20th century. He taught English literature at Oxford and later at Cambridge, and is best known for The Chronicles of Narnia. He also wrote fiction such as The Screwtape Letters and The Space Trilogy, along with Christian apologetics including Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain. His work moves between imaginative storytelling and religious argument, and he is widely read in both.